The Natural and the Supernatural in Literature
(Seminar Room – no. 5 on map)1. Jane Victoria Frost, ‘Bird Imagery in the Ancrene Wisse: Lessons in Asceticism for the Anchoress’2. Tara Auty, ‘A Merging of Supernatural Worlds: Matteo Zuppardo’s Blending of Motifs from Medieval Christianity and Classical Mythology in the Alfonseis’3. Victoria Bladen, ‘Shakespeare’s Political Spectres’

Belief and Empiricism between the Natural and the Supernatural
(Meeting Room – no. 10 on map)1. Georgina Pitt, ‘Negotiating with the Living and the Dead: A Seventh-Century Anglo-Saxon Ship-Burial’2. Sarah Tiboni, ‘The “enfant prodige”: Saint Rose of Viterbo (1233–1251) as a Medium of Supernatural between the Middle Ages and the Contemporary Era’3. Robert Weston, ‘The Natural and Supernatural in Early Modern Europe: A Medical Perspective’

13.00-14.00

Lunch (Sir George Currie Dining Hall – no. 3 on map)

Session 3.14.00-15.30

The Scary Supernatural(Seminar Room – no. 5 on map)1. Abaigéal Warfield, ‘“A frightening new report”: Fear, Blasphemers, and the Devil in Early Modern German News’2. Judith Bonzol, ‘Trouble at Sea: Travelling to the New World and Witchcraft Accusations’3. Jessica Donovan, ‘Shifting Feminine Gender Roles in Vampiric Mythology and Gothic Literature’